Genre: Genre prints / Subject Heading: Sewing equipment & supplies

Creator:: Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1764]
Call Number:: 764.00.00.09+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A young woman sitting directed to left in a wicker-backed chair in a panelled room, wearing a gown with frills at the elbows and a mob-cap, sewing; with a ribbon box and pin cushion on a small table to left; after Heilmann."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Domestic amusement and Fair seamstress
Description:: Title from caption etched below image., Date from unverified card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner.
Publisher:: Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):: Boudoirs, Chairs, Interiors, Sewing, Sewing equipment & supplies, and Young adults
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress [graphic]

Creator:: Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1764]
Call Number:: 764.00.00.10+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A young woman seated in a caned armchair with cushions, directed to right, wearing a frilled cap, a dark apron over her gown with long sleeves and ruffles at the elbow, spinning and glancing at the viewer; a fireplace with a work bag hanging a fire screen in front of it, to the right; an urn on the mantel piece with a mirror on the wall, curtains behind on right and left; after Heilmann
Alternative Title:: Domestic amusement and Lovely spinner
Description:: Title from caption etched below image., Date from unverified card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress., and Watermark.
Publisher:: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):: Chairs, Fireplaces, Interiors, Mirrors, Purses, Sewing equipment & supplies, Spinning, Spinning apparatus, and Young adults
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner [graphic]

Creator:: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840, printmaker
Published / Created:: [14 June 1784]
Call Number:: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Volume 2, page 21. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A young woman playing 'the ballad of Auld Robin Gray' on a harpsichord (inscribed with the maker's name Thomas Kirkman) with a dog standing at her feet, beside another is employed with needlework, a small boy leaning on her leg and reaching up towards her, a third girl stands at the back with a shuttle and thread in hand, an oval frame on the wall behind; oval design, after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 21 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:: Publishd. June 14, 1784, by T. Macklin, No. 39 Fleet Street & C. White, Stafford Row, Pimlico
Subject (Topic):: Young adults, Children, Harpsichords, Needlework, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Morning employments [graphic]

Creator:: Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not after 1768]
Call Number:: 765.00.00.89+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image. and Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See Bénézit's Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... v. 11, p. 302.
Publisher:: Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):: Baskets, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Sewing equipment & supplies
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The seamstress [graphic]

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